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Express adds corporate
Wednesday | Apr 29 2020EXPRESS Travel Group’s (ETG) new Alatus Corporate division (TD breaking news) aims to provide a new option for travel management companies (TMCs) to accelerate their long-term growth prospects and “meet the numerous future challenges for the corporate travel landscape”.
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Tourism Restart Taskforce
Wednesday | Apr 29 2020BIG names in the Australian travel industry have banded together to launch a Tourism Restart Taskforce, which will provide advice to industry and Government on the short, medium and long-term priorities to rebuild tourism in Australia.
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App key to recovery – AFTA
Tuesday | Apr 28 2020THE Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) has urged the industry to support the rollout of the Government’s new COVID-Safe smartphone app, as a key driver of the recovery of travel and tourism in Australia.
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Spending curve turning?
Tuesday | Apr 28 2020IT may be too early to tell, but this week’s exclusive News Corp travel spending data could potentially indicate that the worst of the COVID-19 downturn is almost past.
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Mayfair slows Dunk project
Monday | Apr 27 2020THE developer of a major tourism project in Far North Queensland has suspended the purchase of a number of properties due to the COVID-19 situation, but has reaffirmed its “full commitment to revitalising Mission Beach, Dunk Island and the surrounding region”.
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FCTG revises canx policy
Monday | Apr 27 2020FLIGHT Centre Travel Group (FCTG) has issued a new fee policy in relation to cancellations and refunds, saying the move is “in line with customer feedback”.
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Mass holiday cancellations
Monday | Apr 27 2020ALMOST 40% of Australians have cancelled planned international and domestic holidays over the last month, according to a new report about behaviour since COVID-19 was declared to be a pandemic.
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Air NZ to delay New York
Friday | Apr 24 2020AIR New Zealand is postponing its highly anticipated New York debut (TD 24 Oct 2019) by a year, with the non-stop Auckland flights to the Big Apple to now launch in late 2021 at the earliest.
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Sunset for Horizons Travel
Friday | Apr 24 2020SYDNEY-BASED travel specialist Horizons Group Travel has been placed into voluntary administration, with preliminary figures indicating the business owes creditors just over $1 million.
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STA hit with $14 million fine
Friday | Apr 24 2020STA Travel’s whopping $14 million in penalties for misleading customers about its MultiFLEX product (TD breaking news) comes 12 months after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) first referred the matter to the Federal Court (TD 28 Mar 2019).